http://af.reuters.com/article/moroccoNews/idAFLDE76D1FI20110714?sp=true Morocco says protests over phosphate jobs are over RABAT, July 14 (Reuters) – Protesters have ended their blockade of a railway line used to transport phosphates in Morocco, after promises they would be reconsidered for jobs at the state-run phosphate monopoly (OCP), official media said on Thursday. Over the […]
http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLDE76E0C720110715?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true WRAPUP 5-United States recognises Libya rebels By Tulay Karadeniz ISTANBUL, JulY 15 (Reuters) – Rebel leaders won recognition as the legitimate government of Libya from the United States and other world powers on Friday in a major boost to the rebels’ faltering campaign to oust Muammar Gaddafi. Western nations […]
http://af.reuters.com/article/somaliaNews/idAFLDE76D0Y820110714 Mauritius gets 3 mln euros for pirate trials PORT LOUIS July 14 (Reuters) – Mauritius has secured 3 million euros ($4.25 million) from the European Union for the trial and detention of suspected Somali pirates, the Indian ocean island nation said on Thursday. Rampant piracy off the coast of […]
Death Penalty For Apostates ! By Non-Ahmadiyya Mullah Dr. Israr Ahmad. According to the most of the Muslim clerics and zealots apostate should be punished with death penalty. They believe that no one has the right to change his faith, once he declares himself a Muslim. They preach this distorted […]
Source/Credit: Aljazeera Both pan-Arabist and Islamist governments have failed to embrace diversity and pluralism – to their own detriment. The division of Sudan into two states is a dangerous precedent. The Arab world has to draw the right lessons from if it wants to avoid the break-up of other Arab […]
Source: Ikhwan Web The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) condemns UNESCO’s recent decision to introduce Occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on its website, in a grave violation of UN Security Council Resolutions which consider East Jerusalem Occupied TheMuslim Brotherhood (MB) condemns UNESCO’s recent decision to introduce Occupied Jerusalem as the […]
Source: Khaleej Times Indonesia on Friday arrested a principal of an Islamic boarding school suspected of being a bomb factory, following an explosion inside the campus that killed a man earlier this week, police said. Identified only as Abrori, the teacher was detained at his parents’ house in Bolo sub-district […]
Source/Credit: The Times of Malta: Friday, July 15, 2011 , by Laiq Ahmed Atif Human beings have explored more civilisations with the passage of time and we are now in the 21st century. But, in some countries and societies that is merely a technicality and nothing more. The archaic […]
Credit/Source: The Times of Malta: July 15, 2011 (www.timesofmalta.com) Belgium will enforce a burqa ban from July 23 with a fine and possible jail time for women who wear it, joining France as the second EU nation to forbid full veils, Belgian media said yesterday. The new law was […]
By SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS Published: Jul 14, 2011 21:11 Updated: Jul 14, 2011 21:11 ISTANBUL: Senior officials from more than 40 countries, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, are on their way to the historic Turkish city of Istanbul to take part in Friday’s talks on Libya. Besides […]
By ARAB NEWS Published: Jul 14, 2011 21:18 Updated: Jul 14, 2011 21:40 MAKKAH: The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) has urged municipal authorities in Makkah to take urgent steps to protect the sanctity of some graveyards that it says are being slowly ruined in the holy city, Al-Madinah […]
By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Evaluation of the Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Programme’s economic feasibility study and the environmental and social impact assessment will conclude later this year, a senior government official said on Thursday. The implementation of the Red-Dead project will commence when results of the studies are […]
AMMAN (JT) – A fatwa (religious edict) issued by a key cleric and veteran Muslim Brotherhood member has drawn fire from leading Muslim scholars, who questioned its authenticity, timing and the intentions behind it. Sharia professor Mohammad Abu Fares was quoted Wednesday as telling a news website that “whoever dies […]
RAMALLAH/DOHA (Agencies) – The Arab League on Thursday endorsed a Palestinian plan to seek full membership at the United Nations this fall, setting up a likely confrontation with the United States in the UN Security Council, the Associated Press reported. The Arab Peace Initiative Committee “has decided to submit a […]